Fiona Nielsen

This week, experts from across the genomics ecosystem gathered at the Festival of Genomics to discuss the challenges facing start-up companies and how to overcome them. I was invited to take part in a panel discussion alongside individuals from some of the biggest names in ...

The BGI has inaugurated their new headquarters in the newly built China National Gene Bank by making it the location of the annual ICG conference. The new building is big and the project is an impressive feat - I am comparing to my photos of ...

The two questions I get asked the most from other entrepreneurs are about why and how Repositive is a social enterprise. I hope my summary below is useful - let me know your thoughts. Why is Repositive a social enterprise? Repositive was spun out of ...

You want your hypothesis to be true, but what does the data tell you? If you are a researcher in genetics or other biomedical sciences you are probably hoping for your big breakthrough to one day be able to say that you found the genetic ...

If you are working with cancer genomics, we have some good news! The Genomic Data Commons (GDC) (https://gdc.nci.nih.gov), which will be launching on June 1st 2016, will be standardising and reanalysing a large collection of public cancer datasets including TCGA (The ...